Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.
— Virgil
There's a snake lurking in the grass.
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Fury itself supplies arms.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Fate will find a way.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Their rage supplies them with weapons.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
They succeed, because they think they can.
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
They can because they think they can.
Trust one who has tried.
They are able because they think they are able.
A fault is fostered by concealment.
We can't all do everything.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Mind moves matter.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
None but himself can be his parallel.
Veiling truth in mystery.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Who can blind lover's eyes?
To have died once is enough.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
The medicine increases the disease.
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
From one learn all.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Time flies never to be recalled.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
